Residential Schools
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Just to be clear, Residential Schools were, in a sense, not schools. What I mean is, they were very, very different from today's schools. If you do something wrong, do you get put on to the Electric Chair? No, right. Well, that's how it was when the Residential Schools were there. Technically, Residential Schools were Schools made by us, Canadians, to make Native Aboriginals into Euro-Canadians (Note, at the time, it was Euro-Canadians, not English-Canadians). These Schools were ruled by Christian Churches and the Government. Both of these groups were supporting the change of trying to integrate Aboriginal Youth into the Modern-Day Canadian Society, not realizing the Negative Effects. Residential Schools, most of the times, took children away from their family, locked them in their dormitories, and even forced them to clean the entire school (along with various other chores). If the students disobeyed, they would have to face dire consequences (as said at the top). Some of these would include the famous electric chair, along with various other physical abuse, some of the staff even put did sexual abuse as a punishment. There were very minimal Positive Effects. For one, the staff did teach the students, but the teaching was often deficient and the language taught in was English, not their normal language, so most students failed the exams. Food was extremely deficient as the food was usually stale, had insects in it (which they called "extra protein", and was very malnourished. Most students died because of diseases due to the lack of sanitation, others tried to run away, but died due to the lack of resources.
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